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Re: Quanta is useless for me
by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 20/Apr/2005, @10:04
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Andras didn't mention but Quanta also enables real time structural validation for any DTD if you open the structure tree while editing. As far as Schema validation goes, our initial attempt at reading DTDs was to go with a Schema reading and DTD to Schema conversion. Our preference was to make Schema, not DTD, the basis of our internal validation. The problem is this... suggest to me a mature and functional library for this that we can access and our users can freely access. The tool must be able to handle all scenarios and operate on a diverse set of frameworks for whatever a user's Schema requirements are. If you know where to turn on this let me know. Everything we found was incomplete, often huge and not very versatile. In fact writing Schema tools for targetted use means deciding what your requirements are and picking a library based on that. I was frankly very dissappointed. Schema holds a wonderful promise but as far as I can tell it is not being realized today because it is splintered into divergent ideas and nobody has produced clean universal libraries. Writing the whole library is not practical, especially as when we looked XML Schema was nowhere near set in stone.
As for your other observation, what version are you running? I noted that into 3.1 and 3.2 our default toolbars reflected old style HTML. That changed in 3.3, but it's still academic as we develop those toolbars with user tools in the interface. All of Quanta has been designed to be completely user extensible... so saying what it is in this regard is reflecting the influence of commercial packaged software to be lazy because when you have it running it's pretty much at it's limits of what can be done with it. Quanta will never reach these limits as most of it's personality is developed at run time.
As far as enforcing validation on save... you can set Quanta up to do this easily with Project Event Actions. We will _never_ force this on you because I think it's fascist and because there are clear and valid reasons I know it will flood us with bug reports.
The big problem a lot of people have with Quanta is that it is "not finished" in the way they would like. If we take all those issues and put them on the wall how many "ways" will we find Quanta should be like? Nearly as many as there are people using it. The potential uses for Quanta are too diverse and given the tools available we have to fill a wide spectrum of uses. The only way such highly personal software can be perfect for you is if you customize it to your perfect ideal. If we do it we will have multiple custom configurations and you will probably still not like one. |
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